[felsokning]

>Babies should be public property and let gov handle them when parents do not meet the intelligence criteria.

The lead was buried but it was there. While I - somewhat - agree with their notion/premise, it only works in governments with a modicum of socialism implemented.

I had the inverse experience from the original commenter: I was promised a test to earn the equivalent credit in school (and advance) but, after waiting and gentling prodding for over half a year, nothing came to fruition. I gave up. If no one else cared, why should I?

Depending on a mostly apathetic system can be as bad as apathetic parents - from first-hand experience.

I don't presume to have a solution, to be sure, but bad parents and/or bad systems aren't easily overcome.

[kungfufrog]

I hope you don't mind the correction and apologies if you do, but it's actually "the lede was buried," where lede refers to structured writing in which the opening sentence of a paragraph summarises the most important parts of a narrative.

[felsokning]

Just for the down-vote, have a look at `lede` not being introduced officially into Merriam-Webster until 2008[1].

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versu...

[al_borland]

Here is another explanation that points to the telegraph being the origin, although they could only find one reference to it, while siting countless examples of it not being used outside of this very specific context.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/lead-vs-lede-...

[throwawaymarch5]

*citing countless examples